4.20 PBE Cycle

Table of Contents

• Kalista

• Abilities / Ratios

• Voiceover / Lore

• Blood Moon Kalista

• New Skins

• Battlecast Alpha Skarner

• Battlecast Kog'Maw

• Safecracker Evelynn

• Pickpocket Twitch

• Captain Volibear

• Constable Trundle

• New and Updated Splash Art
• New Ward Skin - Battlecast
• Maokai Update
• Ward Skin Gifting
• New Summoner Icons
• Texture Rebalances
• Misc // Other
• Preseason Changes are Back
• Balance Changes

New Champion - Kalista

Kalista, The Spear of Vengeance

Stats & Abilities

• Base HP: 517.76 (+83 per level)
• Base Mana: 231.8 (+35 per level)
• Base Movement Speed: 325
• Base Damage: 53.46 (+3.25 per level)
• Base Mana Regen Per Second: 1.26 (+0.08 per level)
• Base Attack Range: 550
• Base Magic Resist: 30 (+0 per level)
• Base Armor: 19.012 (+3.5 per level)
• Base HP Regen Per Second: 1.2 (+0.11 per level)

Active: Bind with an ally for the remainder of the game,

becoming Oathsworn Allies. Oathsworn empowers you both while

near one another.  [Choice is intended to be permanent]

Kalista cannot cancel her attacks. If the target leaves vision, her attack will miss. 

If Kalista enters a movement command while winding up her basic attack or Pierce, she will drive through in that direction when she launches her attack, lunging a short distance. 

Dash distance scales with boot rank and is 25% greater when

lunging backward.

50/55/60/65/70 mana, 8 sec cooldown 

A fast but narrow projectile that deals 10/70/130/190/250(+100% total AD) physical damage. Triggers Martial Poise (P), Sentinel (W), and Rend (E). 

If it kills a target, Pierce continues onward, passing all stacks of Rend to the next target.

25 Mana, 30 second cooldown 

Passive: When you and you Oathsworn both basic attack the same target within 1.5 seconds, you deal 12/14/16/18/20% of their max health as magic damage (minimum 100/125/150/175/200 damage to minions). 8 second cooldown per target. 

Active: Send a soul Sentinel to patrol an unseen area. Champions they see are revealed for 4 seconds. Sentinel lasts 7 laps.  

Kalista gains a charge of Sentinel every  90/80/70/60/50 seconds.

35 mana, 14/12.5/11/9.5/8 sec cooldown 

While off cooldown, Kalista's spears pierce their target and linger there for 4 seconds. 

Active: Kalista rips the spears from nearby targets, dealing 20/30/40/50/60 (+60% total AD) physical damage and slowing their Movement Speed by 25/30/45/40/45% for 2 seconds. Each extra spear increases the damage by 25/30/35/40/45% , but not the slow.  

If it kills a target, Rend's cooldown is reset. 

100 mana, 90/75/60 sec cooldown 

Draw Kalista's Oathsworn to her. For up to 4 seconds, the Oathsworn is untargetable but pacified. 

They may mouse click to fly toward target position, stopping at the first enemy champion hit, knocking all enemies in a small radius back and placing the Oathsworn at their maximum attack range from the enemy. 

Kalista's Oathsworn must be within 1400 units for her to cast  this ability.

Voiceover / Lore

"Kalista is an eternal spirit of retribution, who possesses a cold-burning hatred for all betrayers, deceivers, and traitors. In life, she was a legendary warrior, but while trying to avert tragedy she was betrayed and slain by those she trusted most. Now, she is an undying entity that can be invoked to exact vengeance, but only at great cost: the supplicant’s soul becomes forfeit, bound to her for eternity"

Release Skin: Blood Moon  Kalista

"The mists swirl and part, wispy tendrils sliding hungrily across her undead arms. She pulls down her mask, silently creeping along the twisted treeline. 

With a hushed growl, she sends her specter to scout ahead. Its reddish glow turns the spooky green forest into an undulating mottled pattern of gray trees and black shadows. Even the moon above seems to dim. 

By its sinister light, she spots her prey ahead. 

Silently, she raises her spear back. The sharp, curved tip flows with bloody energy.

With a grunt, she hurls it, and and springs forward in anticipation. 

Blood Moon Kalista has arrived.

• An all new model with Blood Moon mask, new armor, new spectral scout
• All new Blood Moon particles, with red and deep blue colors
• A new recall animation, complete with new sounds

Join her ranks, if you are brave."

New Skins

 Battlecast Kog'Maw

1350 RP

[ Pictures below this slightly outdated - missing exhaust and fire!]

[Here down are outdated as of 11/12, do not include face tweaks]

 Safecracker Evelynn

750 RP

 Pickpocket Twitch

750 RP

 Captain Volibear

750 RP

[Note: video slightly out dated atm]

 Constable Trundle

750 RP

"With loose cannons like Jinx wreaking havoc in Runeterra among others, it's hard for Officer Caitlyn to keep up! Good news for her, she's getting back up! Introducing Captain Volibear and Constable Trundle! 

Captain Volibear and Constable Trundle will be 750 RP each and include:

• All new model and texture!

You can check out the boys in blue in game now on PBE! We always find bug reports and feedback super helpful, so feel free to comment in the thread below! Likewise, if you've got any questions, post 'em here, and we'll do our best to answer them!

GLHF! 

NOTE: (11/4) Captain Volibear is not available to play today. Please hang tight!"

New and Updated Splash Art

The new Graves splash art first introduced last PBE cycle and pushed to live in 4.19 has been updated and no longer includes him smoking a cigar.

[Old vs New]

New Ward Skin - Battlecast

"With the addition of two new Battlecast skins, it's only fitting that there's a Battlecast Ward to celebrate! 

The Battlecast Ward will be 640 RP and includes:

• All new model and texture! (So shiny!)
• New animations!
• New particles! Note: Exhaust fumes do not harm the inhabitants of Runeterra ...except maybe Teemo.
• New SFX!

You can check it out the Battlecast Ward in game now on PBE! We always find bug reports and feedback super helpful, so feel free to comment in the thread below! Likewise, if you've got any questions, post 'em here, and we'll do our best to answer them! 

GLHF!"

Updated Maokai Ability Icons

To go along with his upcoming visual updates, Maokai now has a new set of ability icons.

Passive / Q / W / E / R

Maokai Visual Updates

After problems being deployed last week, Maokai's updates are now on the PBE! He's got new models and textures for most of his skins, new visual effects, and more!

Here's Ququroon has posted up a thread on the PBE boards concerning an these visual updates to Maokai!

"Branching out to the PBE is Maokai, the Twisted Treant! 

Having gone through a growth spurt, Maokai now looks and feels more like the character he was meant to be. With an updated model and texture set, crisp new visual effects, new sounds to crush your enemies with and more, this plant come to life now feels more alive than ever. As usual, all of the above affects his skins as well. 

One of the other major goals on this project was to increase visual clarity for Maokai, his allies and his enemies. His ultimate is massively powerful, but was it ever really the most noticeable? Did his snare ever really feel as effective as it actually is? Could his saplings be even more awesome? We pushed these a bit, so hopefully you'll be able to feel the effects! 

We'd really appreciate it if you'd take a look at Maokai, and hit us with any bugs and feedback that come your way. Your feedback helps to guide changes we can make, as well as helps us grow as a team. 

Between the update to Summoner's Rift and now this, it certainly is a great time for our trees.

ALSO, GO READ THIS DEVBLOG ABOUT CHAMPUP!"

Now for a better look!

Maokai

[Face glow = passive charged]

[Visual indicator for Q slow]

[W's root]

[When Maokai's R is charged (full bonus damage), there is a new glow effect!]

Charred Maokai

Totemic Maokai

Festive Maokai

Haunted Maokai

Goalkeeper Maokai is considered "modern" and has not been updated but he does have the new vfx.

New Summoner Icons

To go along with the new Battlecast Alpha Skarner and Battlecast Kog'Maw skins, there are two new Battlecast themed summoner icons in today's update! No details on availability just yet.

Ability Bar and Buff Update

"Hello Summoners! 

Active items (items that come bundled with an ability) are tremendously powerful... if you can remember to use them! To address this, we're making a few changes to the ability bar that will better group and prioritize information. 

In particular, active item abilities are now displayed over your center ability bar! By placing them front and center, we hope to increase awareness and usage. Functionally, they will be ordered (and have the same hotkeys) as the slot they are assigned to in the item section. 

To supplement this change, we're also shifting buffs around. 

Left - Ambient Buffs. Buffs that do not contribute to moment-to-moment interactions are now located above your champion portrait. This includes auras, persistent states, and information that is already well-represented in game space. In addition, Buffs are left-justified, while Debuffs are right-justified. 

Center - Ability Trackers. Buffs that are core to your gameplay loop remain above your ability bar. This includes things like spell countdowns (Annie's Pyromania) and spell timers (Annie's Summon: Tibbers). 

We hope these changes will reinforce the ability bar as the tactical command center of game interaction. Try out the feature and let us know how you feel! As always, this is an iterative feature, which means we'll be making continued tweaks and improvements, even after we go live!"

Ward Skin Gifting

"Howdy Summoners! 

The Unlock Team has enabled ward skin gifting on PBE. Share the gift of sight and prevent ganks by sending a ward skin to your friends! 

Please help us test out this feature and report any bugs in this thread. See you on the rift..."

More Texture Rebalances

Amumu

Vancouver Amumu

Almost Prom King Amumu

Re-gifted Amumu

Caitlyn

Arctic Warfare Caitlyn

Resistance Caitlyn

Safari Caitlyn

Ezreal

Frosted Ezreal

Nottingham Ezreal

Striker Ezreal

Fizz 

 

Atlantean Fizz 

Void Fizz

 Fisherman Fizz

Gragas 

Hillbilly Gragas

 Santa Gragas

 Scuba Gragas

Kog'Maw 

Sonoran Kog'maw TU

Caterpillar Kog

Deep Sea Kog

Jurassic Kog 

Reindeer Kog

Mordekaiser

Talon

Renegade Talon

Crimson Elite Talon

Udyr

Black Belt Udyr

Primal Udyr

Urgot 

 Butcher Urgot

Giant Enemy Crabgot

Vladimir

Marquis Vlad

Count Vlad

Nosferatu Vlad

Vandal Vlad

Zilean

Old Saint Zilean

Shurima Desert Zilean

Time Machine Zilean

Jax

The Mighty Jax

Angler Jax

Pax Jax

Jaximus

Riven

Redeemed Riven

Crimson Elite Riven

Battle Bunny Riven

Other

Not sure when this was implemented but FLASH now has a summoner level requirement of 8 instead of 12!

Smite is also now available at level 10 instead of level 3.

There are new IP and EXP boost icons!

 Activate or consumable items now have  fancy border around them, likely in conjunction with the Ability Bar and Buff updates they are also being  tested.

We also have more "KingPoro" files, mysteriously named set of file names much in the same vein of the "Ascension" files before they were developed into a new game mode, in the form of "TitanBarKingPoro.ini" located in the HUD files. Speculate away.

The new End of Game assets have received  a few changes and they are now slightly animated, although they do not seem to be complete.

• Victory
• Defeat 

Preseason 2015

Preseason is to be back and ready for more testing, including all the jungle, objective, and item changes we saw during the last PBE cycle!

Looking for more on the upcoming Preseason 2015 changes?

• Preseason 2015: Introduction
• Preseason 2015: A New Jungle
• Preseason 2015: Diversifying Objectives
• Preseason 2015: Forging a Diverse Armory

[Note: Given the extremely tentative nature of these changes and Riot's lack of changelist / rough notes, it is extremely hard to keep up. Adding things as I spot them but be aware some changes are (unfortunately) not listed.]

Now on to the new stuff:

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11/12
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Just a few tweaks to the preseason items:

Hunter's Machete

• Passive - Jungler health regen while in combat with monsters lowered to 7 from 8

Skirmisher's Sabre, Ranger's Trailblazer, Poacher's Knife,  Stalker's Blade

• Passive - Jungler health regen while in combat with monsters lowered to 10 from 12.

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11/11
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It is worth noting that the  "preseason 2015 map" has been renamed to just "Summoner's Rift Beta", presumably since the preseason changes likely are headed to live in 4.20.

The biggest set of changes in today's update is a slew of new item and effect icons!

First up is the new jungle item icons, which have a "gem slot" that changes based on which enchant you purchase.

Skirmisher's Sabre

Base  ( Empty ) + Enchants - Magus, Juggernaut, Devourer, Warrior

Ranger's Trailblazer

Base ( Empty ) + Enchants - Magus, Juggernaut, Devourer, Warrior

Poacher's Knife

Base ( Empty ) + Enchants - Magus, Juggernaut, Devourer, Warrior

Stalker's Blade

Base ( Empty ) + Enchants - Magus, Juggernaut, Devourer, Warrior

There are also new variations of Smite's icon, color coded to match the different versions of Smite granted by each of the new jungle items!

Scavenging , Blasting, Challenging, Chilling  

Each of the four new Elixirs also have their own unique icons now!

Elixir of Ruin, Elixir of Iron, Elixir of Wrath, Elixir of Sorcery

Finally, we have new item icons for the three brand new items:

Raptor Cloak, Righteous Glory, Crystalline Bracer

Outside of items, we also have an assortment of other icons!

Scuttle Crab, the new jungle monster that roams the river and grants a speed shrine when killed, now has his own portrait icon.

Baron's Empowered Recall, part of the new bonuses granted when slaying Baron Nashor, also has a new icon!

The Homefield Advantage buff, which is NOT currently on the PBE, also has a new icon.

There are also two new icons relating to the Dragon, one while gaining stacks of Dragon Slayer and one while at five stacks.

[ Left = Stacks and Right = 5 Stacks ]

New scoreboard assets to track number of dragon kills

and here's what it looks like in-game! Each of the heads at the top fill a notch per stack of Dragon Slayer.

The new shield granted by inner, inhib, and nexus towers (via the Vanguard item in each tower's inventory) is now white/silver instead of yellow/bronze colored.

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Here's a few updates to changes from preseason:

Stalker's Blade, Poacher's Knife, Skirmisher's Sabre, Ranger's Trailblazer

• "Passive - Jungler" mana regen increased to 5 per second while in combat with monsters from 4.

Elixir of Sorcery

• Champion and Tower bonus true damage lowered to 25 from 40.

The turret specific item "Reinforced Armor" has been increased to 200 armor and MR when no enemy minions are nearby from 150.

The new jungle items, all of which build out of Hunter's Machete and alter the functionality of Smite, have been updated with slightly

and here's the up to date versions of the jungle item enchants, which have slightly different stats or build paths compared to the versions last cycle.

A lot of the health and mana regeneration items are also being updated to show the approximate regen boost the new +% regen stats do! As you can see in this screen shot below, the items give +25% base health and mana regen, which translates to +2 Heath per 5 seconds and +2 mana per 5 seconds for the particular champion I was using.

There are new, uniquely colored sparkles for each camp's smite reward.

Once again the Dragon Slayer buff has been changed! Here's the most update to date version, including several switched around or different bonuses:

Scuttle Crab's speed shrine has been polished up a bit. In addition to now "swimming" to the shrine, you can see  him hanging out below the surface of the water!

The smite reward for Krugs also has new vfx, small stones now appear around the champions hands.

Likewise, the smite bonus for wolves is no longer a spirit wolf but instead a nature-y looking orb.

Whenever an enemy runs by that orb, a wolf spawns and chases them!

The "Homefield Advantage" buff that granted extra movement speed and defenses while in your own base has been removed.

Balance Changes

* Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical changes. The changes you see below may be lacking context or other accompanying changes that didn't make it in - don't freak out! These are not official notes.

[Note: Due to the preseason changes to base stats for every champion, the individual stat tweaks for each champion (as individual buffs/nerfs rather than part of the others) will seem slightly off.]

Champions

[[All Champions]]

• As a part of the preseason 2015 changes, most champions have received significant tweaks to their base stats

Amumu

• Despair (W) damage changed to 1/1.5/2/2.5/3%  of enemies maximum health from 1.5/1.8/2.1/2.4/2.7% 

Azir

• Conquering Sands (Q) Sand Soldier damage increased to 75/105/135/165/195 from 60/90/120/150/180
• Arise (W) AP ratios decreased to .6 from .7
• Shifting Sands (E) shield value increased to 80/120/160/200/240 from 60/100/140/180/220

Cassiopeia

• REVERTED.

• [Context: The set of changes introduced in the 11/4 Patch have all been reverted back to live values and functionality. NEVE FEAR THOUGH! Stashu will soon be putting up a new version.]

Fiora

• Blade Waltz (R) base damage lowered to 125/255/385 from 160/330/500
• Blade Waltz (R) bonus AD ratio lowered to .9 from 1.2
• Blade Waltz (R) successive strikes against same target damage increased to 40% from 25%

Gnar

• Base Health Regen lowered slightly (preseason stat changes make these a little weird)
• Rage Gene (Passive) stats adjusted slightly, Mini MS up, Mega HP/5 up, Mega HP per level up, Mega AD per level up.

• Boomerang Throw (Q ) damage lowered to 5/35/65/95/125 from 10/45/80/115/150
• Boomerang Throw (Q) AD ratio increased to 1.15 AD from 1 AD
• Boomerang Throw (Q) width increased to 60 from 55
• Boulder Toss (Mega Q) damage lowered to 5/45/85/125/165 from 10/50/90/130/170
• Boulder Toss (Mega Q) AD ratio increased to 1.2 AD from 1.15 AD
• Hyper (W) flat damage lowered to 10/20/30/40/50 from 25/30/35/40/45.
• Wallop ( Mega W) active cooldown changed to 15/13/11/9/7 from 12/11/10/9/8

Heimerdinger

• Base health regen increased significantly
• Techmaturgical Repair Bots (Passive) no longer buffs Heimerdinger

• [Context: Swap - higher base regen but passive no longer works on him. this is a neutral change]

Kha'Zix

• Void Spike (W) cooldown increased to 10 seconds from 8 seconds

Katarina

• Death Lotus ( R ) cooldown increased to 90/60/45 from 60/52.5/45
• Death Lotus (R) damage reduced to 350/550/750 from 400/575/750

• Unspeakable Horror (E) has a new passive : "Nocturne gains massively increased movement speed toward feared enemies." REVERTED.

• Consume (Q) [tooltip updated to better reflect what he is eating for each buff.]

Rammus

• Powerball (Q) cooldown increased to 16/14.5/13/11.5/10 from 10 at all ranks.
• Puncturing Taunt (E) armor reduction reduced to 5/10/15/20/25 from 10/15/20/25/30

Sona

• Hymn of Valor (Q) aura on hit magic damage AP ratio lowered to .2 from .25
• Aria of Perseverance (W) healing now [increased by .5% per 1% missing HP] from [1% per 1% missing HP].
• Aria of Perseverance (W) base heal increased to 30/50/70/90/110 from 25/45/65/85/105